Questionable Open Acess Publishing in Latin America
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Questionable Open Access Publishing
Presented by Cenyu Shen DOAJ Ambassador for China
Phd Candidate, Hanken School of Economics, [email protected]
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Agenda
• Introduction to Gold OA publishing market• Background to questionable OA publishing• Main results of my ealier research on questionable
OA publishing• Reflections upon this issue
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Gold OA Publishing Market
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»Why?
»Innovation in digital technologies
»Librarians’ support
»Publishers’ support
Poltronieri et. al., (2016)
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What is quesionable OA publishing?
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•Jeffrey Beall coined the term “predatory publishers”•John Bohannon's experiment• Definition:
“The sort of OA publishers and journals who only aims to collect article processing charges (APCs), but they lack RIGOROUS peer review and PROPER marketing practices”
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How to identify questionable OA publishers and/or journals?
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•Two major characteristics:•Inappropriate marketing practices
•Spam emails
•Journal titles with “International”, “American” or “European”
•Fake impact factors
•Advertise a very short publishing time
•Advertise a relative low publication fees
•No or little quality control of contents•Low-standard peer review process or even don’t have peer review at all
•Other typical characteristics
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Eariler Research: ‘Predatory’ Open Access: A longitudinal Study of Article Volumes and Market Characteristics (Shen and Björk, 2015)
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•Earlier research about questionable OA publishing have so far mainly concentrated on exposing lacking peer review and scandals involving publishers and journals.•There is a lack of serious studies about several aspects of this phenomenon, including extent and regional effects. •The aim of our study is to provide a comprehensive understanding of questionable publishers and/or journals in terms of
•distribution of publishers and authors acorss regions
•the number of journals
•the number of articles published over the past five years
•APC costs
•publication time
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Main Results
-Country of publishers
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•38.7% - Asia (27.1% from India)•0.5% - South America•26.8% -Impossible to determine
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Main Results
-Development of article volumes
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Total article volumes:2010: 53,000
2014: 420,000In South America,
≈ 2100
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Main Results
-Average number of articles per journal
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Main Results
-Subject fields
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Main Results
-Country of authors
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•60.3% - Asia (34.7% from India)•2.3% - South America•16.4% - Africa
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• To conclude, between 2010 and 2014, there was a dramatic rise in the number of questionable OA journals and articles published by them with exceptional low APCs of 300 USD per journal and a short publishing time between 2-3 months.
• The problem of questionable OA publishing is highly limited and regional to a few developing countries, where ‘international publication’ is a prerequisite for academic appointment, more funding, or promotion.
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Reflections
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•Questionable OA publishers and/or journals has (1) caused negative publicity to OA publishing in general (‘pay to publish’) and (2) posed a danger to the landscape of Science (‘production of low-quality research’)
•What can we do to combat the fast growth of questionable OA publishing market?
•It's critical to (1) every stakeholder need to play a role (2) call for collaborative efforts from various key stakeholders to find the effective solutions.
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•Resources
•DOAJ http://doaj.org
•Think, Check, Submit http://thinkchecksubmit.org
•Beall’s list https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
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Thank you!
Cenyu ShenDOAJ Ambassador for China
Phd Candidate, Hanken School of Economics, [email protected]